Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 941-948 , May 2003

Impact of cataract surgery on self-reported visual difficulties: Comparison with a no-surgery reference group

  • Gerald McGwin Jr., MS, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine (McGwin, Scilley, Brown, Owsley), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • Department of Epidemiology and International Health, School of Public Health (McGwin), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • Section on Trauma, Burns and Surgical Critical Care, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine (McGwin), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Gerald McGwin, MS, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital, 700 South 18th Street, Suite 609, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0009, USA.
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  • Kay Scilley, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine (McGwin, Scilley, Brown, Owsley), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • Dr. Owsley is a Research to Prevent Blindness senior scientific investigator. None of the authors has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.
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  • Jay Brown, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine (McGwin, Scilley, Brown, Owsley), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • Dr. Owsley is a Research to Prevent Blindness senior scientific investigator. None of the authors has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.
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  • Cynthia Owsley, PhD, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine (McGwin, Scilley, Brown, Owsley), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • Dr. Owsley is a Research to Prevent Blindness senior scientific investigator. None of the authors has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

,Accepted 18 September 2002.

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☆ Funded by the National Institutes of Health grant P50 AG11684, Bethesda, Maryland, Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., New York, New York, and EyeSight Foundation of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

PII: S0886-3350(02)01846-1

doi: 10.1016/S0886-3350(02)01846-1

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 941-948 , May 2003

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